Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps the Government has taken as a result of the recommendation made in the Hutton review of forensic pathology in England and Wales, submitted to the Minister of State for Crime and Prevention in March 2015, that non-forensic pathologists engaged in mass fatality incidents should work under the supervision of a Home Office Registered Forensic Pathologist.

The Home Office has consulted with the National Police Chiefs’ Council’s UK Disaster Victim Identification Unit who have stated that their systems for mass fatality incidents are in line with the recommendation in the Hutton review.